SEC once again does something stupid

[tvols75]

Cut the scholly number down even further from 28 to 25 per year.

 

[Volunteer08]

If the football team receives sanctions such as losing 3 scholarships per season...

Those 3 scholarships would count against the SEC's mandate of 25, so 22?

 

[VOL_FAN_in KY]

Coaches have to be sure they pick the "right" guys now. No room for error.

 

[tvols75]

Why would you do something that put your conference at a competitive disadvantage? Slive said the NCAA should and will do the same (sounded very cocky). Ok, then let the NCAA do it and don't punish the SEC schools if the NCAA decided not to implement the same policy.

 

[VOL_FAN_in KY]

interesting Slive said NCAA "should and will" follow

 

[tvols75]

Something else that just created a competitive disadvantage: SEC will no longer allow 1 year grad players to come to SEC to finish their degree and play their senior year.

 

[VOL_FAN_in KY]

also interesting SEC did away with the one year transfer rule.

 

[BigOrange15]

interesting Slive said NCAA "should and will" follow

That is kind of odd.

 

[Burhead]

Something else that just created a competitive disadvantage: SEC will no longer allow 1 year grad players to come to SEC to finish their degree and play their senior year.

Starts in October. The coaches all voted against it and he still went and changed the rule, it pretty stupid.

 

[Ericvol2096]

Man I HATE Slive!

 

[Burhead]

Here is what has been changed;

SEC office will now manage medical scholarship decisions.
Signing total drops from 28 to 25.
SEC bans schools from taking one year, grad student transfers.

 

[strongtower]

wow slive is an idiot

 

[gnm53108]

Here is what has been changed;

SEC office will now manage medical scholarship decisions.
Signing total drops from 28 to 25.
SEC bans schools from taking one year, grad student transfers.

So nothing adressing "greyshirts"?

 

[volwarrior33]

Back counting is still allowed and nothing addressing a hard 85 cap, so if we only sign 20 this year, we could sign 30 in 2013.

 

[glhal2814]

So nothing adressing "greyshirts"?

This would address greyshirts.

Greyshirts are almost always a result of signing more than 25 players in a class and having all of them make it in.

Greyshirting by hitting the 85 limit is rare enough I'm not sure of a coach / recruit situation where that was the cause and not the 25. Saban is staring it down for next year though.

 

[justingroves]

So nothing adressing "greyshirts"?

Signing only 25 guys does away with greyshirts for the most part.

You can enroll 25 guys per the NCAA. You can now only sign 25 per the SEC.

You're not leaving any doubt about a kid if he signs the LOI.

 

[volstuckinwa]

Good job Slive. So now teams outside the Sec just gained ground on us...makes sense. I mean who wants to see the Sec teams continue to win National Championships.

 

[justingroves]

Back counting is still allowed and nothing addressing a hard 85 cap, so if we only sign 20 this year, we could sign 30 in 2013.

This is true.

 

[glhal2814]

Here is what has been changed;

SEC office will now manage medical scholarship decisions.
Signing total drops from 28 to 25.
SEC bans schools from taking one year, grad student transfers.

The first should always have been managed that way. The old system was made for abuse. Everyone involved benefitted but teams that did not use it to manage rosters.

As long as the NCAA follows suit, I'm OK with the 28 to 25 drop. However, I think Les Miles and Mark Richt , oddly enough, made pretty good arguements as to why its not that bad to do.

The last is a rare enough issue that I don't care, and don't understand why the SEC would.

 

[justingroves]

Good job Slive. So now teams outside the Sec just gained ground on us...makes sense. I mean who wants to see the Sec teams continue to win National Championships.

When was the last time a greyshirt played a vital role on a national champion contender from the SEC?

 

[Midfielder10]

Good move by Slive. Greyshirting is unethical and hopefully this will force highschool prospects to work harder in the classroom.

 

[Burhead]

They also banned 7 on 7 events and those can't be on campus and coaches can't participate in them,

 

[gnm53108]

This would address greyshirts.

Greyshirts are almost always a result of signing more than 25 players in a class and having all of them make it in.

Greyshirting by hitting the 85 limit is rare enough I'm not sure of a coach / recruit situation where that was the cause and not the 25. Saban is staring it down for next year though.

So are they talking about scollarship singings or LOI's?

 

[volroadwarrior]

Slive is a Big 10 mole.

 

[justingroves]

Good move by Slive. Greyshirting is unethical and hopefully this will force highschool prospects to work harder in the classroom.

Not if a coach is honest about it upfront with kid they're recruiting.